Free Us

By Newdles

On L’Abri

Released on March 3, 2023

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[Verse 1]

I can't speak to you

It’s too easy to break the rules

My time is melted on keeping peace

Can I maintain trust and be free?

You say you love me

But you love your empire more it seems

Light streams in

I'm peering through the flaws in your policies

I wanted to be yours

You wanted property

Were you once yourself like me?

Who is God?


[Verse 2]

(I just want to eat) But is drugs all that we are in here?

(Daddy, can I eat?) Oh no, don't tell me that it’s love again

(Please let mе eat) Because if you gavе me freedom then

Greed wouldn't be in the fantasies I'm drooling on

(I just want to eat) My voice is stained with puerility

(Daddy, can I eat?) My own language makes me sick

(Please let me eat) I'm too old, I'm stunted, I'm puking but starving

There's nothing but manna to...


[Chorus]

Free us, oh Lord

Free us, oh Lord

Cast down the mighty

And lift up the poor (when you return, oh)

Free us, oh Lord (when you return, oh)

Free us, oh Lord (and you're eternal)

Cast down the mighty

And lift up the poor (when we return, oh)


[Bridge]

We never say what we want to to each other

Enemy’s just a term for unrequited lovers

Would we be loved without being your dependent?

Can I just speak without heralding insurrection?

Greater shame has no man than this

Than to be the one that left


[Outro]

I know I sound brainwashed

(It’s all conditioning)

But these words are all I've got

(I don’t know how to resist it, with what you've given me)

It's the language I was taught

(A symbol of loyalty is not, all that I wish to be)

Diagnose me as you want

(It's just the normal cycle, spare the soliloquies)

But I can’t fight for your cause

(You can't just blame your defenses, on your divinity)

From the safety of these walls

(Just like I can't blame myself or, you for futility)

If you're too proud to crawl

(You're not the only source of my, sustainability)

Then I'm going for a walk